Dream Set Lists for Your Favorite Artists (1,617 views)

[Dark Star]

This was a really fun and inventive thread on previous iterations of TRP, figure we'd bring it here. You can choose any artist, at any time in their career, any number of songs you'd like to hear them play live, living or dead.

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{Prince}
1. I Wanna Be Your Lover
2. Uptown
3. Let's Work
4. U Got the Look
5. The Beautiful Ones
6. Soft and Wet
7. When You Were Mine
8. Peach
9. Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)
10. Power Fantastic (Prince on solo piano)
11. Do Me, Baby (piano, band joins in for chorus onward)
12. Anna Stesia (piano, full band)
13. Sexy M.F.
14. Let's Go Crazy
15. Delirious
16. 1999
17. Little Red Corvette
18. Take Me with U
19. Raspberry Beret
20. Cream
21. Controversy

Encore 1:

22. Adore
23. 7
24. Days of Wild

Encore 2:

25. Kiss
26. Sign o' the Times
27. When Doves Cry
28. I Would Die 4 U
29. Baby I'm a Star
30. Purple Rain

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{The Rolling Stones}1. Get Off of My Cloud
2. Let's Spend the Night Together
3. When the Whip Comes Down
4. Mother's Little Helper
5. Paint It Black
6. Gimme Shelter
7. Tumbling Dice
8. Silver Train
9. Can't You Hear Me Knocking
10. Emotional Rescue
11. Honky Tonk Women
12. All About You
13. Little T&A
14. Miss You
15. Midnight Rambler
16. One Hit (to the Body)
17. Sympathy for the Devil
18. It's Only Rock 'n Roll
19. Start Me Up
20. Brown Sugar
21. Jumping Jack Flash
22. Street Fighting Man

Encore:

23. You Can't Always Get What You Want
24. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

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{Frank Sinatra}1. Ring-A-Ding Ding
2. I've Got the World on a String
3. You Make Me Feel So Young (Songs Young Lovers arrangement)
4. Come Rain or Come Shine
5. I Have Dreamed
6. I Get a Kick Out of You
7. Please Be Kind (with Count Basie)
8. I Only Have Eyes for You (with Count Basie)
9. I Won't Dance (with Count Basie) (Sinatra-Basie arrangement)

-- at this point, the horn section leaves the stage and Frank announces a selection of ballads --

10. Autumn Leaves
11. I'll Never Smile Again
12. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry (with Al Viola on guitar)

-- horn section rejoins --

13. Night and Day (Swingin' Affair arrangement)
14. Witchcraft
15. Nice n' Easy
16. How Little It Matters (How Little We Know)
17. Moonlight in Vermont
18. Chicago
19. All the Way
20. The Lady is a Tramp
21. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
22. Ol' Man River

Encore:

23. Nancy (with the Laughing Face)
24. Young at Heart
25. Come Fly with Me

[halloweenjack95]

Elton John around 1979:

1. Funeral for a Friend/Love lies bleeding
2. Rocket Man
3. Skyline Pigeons
4. Bennie and the Jets
5. Honky Cat
6. Country Comfort
7. Your Song
8. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
9. Better off Dead
10. Island Girl
11. Levon
12. Daniel
13. Indian Sunset
14. Take me to the Pilot
15. Part time love
16. Someone saved my life tonight
17. Sorry seems to be the hardest Word
18. Tonight
19. Dirty Little Girl
20. Crocodile Rock

Encore 1:

1.Saturday Nights (Alright for fighting)
2. Don't let the Sun go down on me
3. We fall in love sometimes

Encore 2:

1. The Bitch is back
2. Boogie Polgrim
3. Sweet painted Lady
4. Take me to the Pilot
5. Harmony

[halloweenjack95]

My Dream Set List if the Beatles did one final concert in 1970:

1. Come Together
2. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
3. With a little help from my friends 
4. Something 
5. Taxman
6. I want you (She's so heavy)
7. Get Back
8. Don't pass me by
9. Blackbird
10. I've just seen a face 
11. Norwegian Wood (The Bird has Flown)
12. I want to tell you
13. Don't let me down
14. Helter Skelter 
15. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds 
16. Strawberry Fields forever 
17. All my loving 
18. I saw her standing there
19. Long, Long, Long 
20. A hard day's Night 

Encore 1:

1. Help!
2. Here, there everywhere
3. If I needed someone  
4. Octupus's Garden 

Encore 2:

1. While my Guitar gently weeps 
2. She's Leaving Home 
3. Oh! Darling 
4. Here comes the Sun 

Encore 3:

The Abbey Road Medley

[Dark Star]

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{Beatles Reunion circa 1979-80}
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. With a Little Help from My Friends
3. Drive My Car
4. Don't Let Me Down
5. Octopus's Garden
6. All My Loving
7. Strawberry Fields Forever
8. Something
9. I've Got a Feeling
10. Lady Madonna
11. A Day in the Life

-- acoustic set --

12. In Spite of All the Danger
13. Do You Want to Know a Secret
14. I've Just Seen a Face
15. Here Comes the Sun

16. Back in the U.S.S.R.
17. Help!
18. Penny Lane
19. Old Brown Shoe
20. Yellow Submarine
21. Come Together
22. Let it Be
23. Hey Jude
24. The Long and Winding Road

Encore 1:

25. All You Need is Love
26. Get Back
27. Helter Skelter
28. A Day in the Life

Encore 2:

29. Yesterday
30. Abbey Road Medley

Encore 3:

31. In My Life

[Dark Star]

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{Grateful Dead c. 1972 (w/ Keith and Pigpen, Donna out sick)}Set 1:

1. Bertha
2. Greatest Story Ever Told
3. Cold Rain and Snow
4. Black Throated Wind
5. Ramble On Rose
6. Hard to Handle
7. Box of Rain
8. Tennessee Jed
9. Viola Lee Blues
10. Ripple
11. Looks Like Rain
12. Cumberland Blues
13. Good Lovin'

Set 2:

1. Alligator
2. It Hurts Me Too
3. Big Railroad Blues
4. Cryptical Envelopment (v1) ->
5. St. Stephen (w / William Tell Bridge) ->
6. The Eleven ->
7. Cryptical Envelopment (v2) ->
8. The Other One ->
9. Dark Star ->
10. Morning Dew
11. Sugar Magnolia

Encore:

12. Turn on Your Lovelight

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{Grateful Dead c. Spring 77 (again, no Donna)}Set 1:

1. Help on the Way ->
2. Slipknot! ->
3. Franklin's Tower
4. Looks Like Rain
5. Sugaree
6. New Minglewood Blues
7. Ramble on Rose
8. Big River
9. High Time
10. Dancing in the Streets

Set 2:

1. Scarlet Begonias ->
2. Fire on the Mountain
3. Estimated Prophet ->
4. Eyes of the World ->
5. St. Stephen (v1 & 2) ->
6. Not Fade Away ->
7. St. Stephen (v.3) ->
8. Comes a Time ->
9. Terrapin Station ->
10. Morning Dew

Encore:

11. Sugar Magnolias
12. Brokedown Palace

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{Grateful Dead (c. 1989)}Set 1:

1. Feel Like a Stranger
2. Shakedown Street
3. Sugaree
4. Hell in a Bucket
5. Althea
6. Brown Eyed Women
7. Let it Grow
8. Foolish Heart ->
9. Deal

Set 2:

1. Box of Rain ->
2. Sugar Magnolia ->
3. Scarlet Begonias ->
4. Fire on the Mountain ->
5. Estimated Prophet ->
6. Dark Star ->
7. Drums ->
8. Space ->
9. The Other One ->
10. Sunshine Daydream

Encore:

11. And We Bid You Goodnight

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{Elton John (late 1990s)}1. Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
2. Island Girl
3. Harmony
4. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
5. Tiny Dancer
6. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
7. Honky Cat
8. Philadelphia Freedom
9. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
10. Burn Down the Mission
11. Levon
12. Someone Saved My Life Tonight
13. Take Me to the Pilot
14. Rocket Man
15. I Guess that's Why They Call it the Blues
16. Can You Feel the Love Tonight
17. Believe
18. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
19. Sad Songs (Say So Much)
20. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
21. The Bitch is Back
22. I'm Still Standing
23. Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting

Encore:

24. Circle of Life
25. Your Song

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{Stevie Wonder}1. Love's in Need of Love Today
2. Did I Hear You Say Love Me
3. All I Do
4. Master Blaster (Jammin')
5. Higher Ground
6. Golden Lady
7. Living for the City
8. Knocks Me Off my Feet
9. If You Really Love Me
10. Uptight (Everything's Alright)
11. Stay Gold
12. Lately
13. Overjoyed
14. Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing
15. My Cherie Amour
16. Signed, Sealed Delivered (I'm Yours)
17. I Was Made to Love Her
18. For Once in My Life
19. Sir Duke
20. I Wish
21. You Are the Sunshine of My Life
22. Superstition
23. You Haven't Done Nothing
24. Part Time Lover

Encore:

25. Isn't She Lovely
26. I Just Called to Say I Love You
27. As

[halloweenjack95]

Rolling Stones ;

1. Gimme Shelter
2. Let's spend the night together
3. Honky Tonk Woman
4. Miss you
5. It's only Rock'n Roll
6. Memory Motel
7. You got the Silver
8. Happy
9. Too Rude
10. Monkey Man
11. Start me up
12. Brown Sugar
13. Jumping Jack Flash
14. Love in Vain
15. Lady Jane
16. Angie
17. Wild Horses
18. She's a Rainbow
19. 2000 Man
20. Paint it Black

Encore 1:

1. Sympathy for the Devil
2. Mother's little helper
3. You can't always get what you want

Encore 2:

1. Out of Time
2. (I can't get no) Satisfaction

[Dark Star]

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{Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band (current)}1. My Love Will Not Let You Down
2. I Wanna Be with You
3. Night
4. Jackson Cage
5. Prove It All Night (w / 1978 intro)
6. It's Hard to be a Saint in the City
7. Candy's Room
8. Roulette
9. Cover Me
10. Lost in the Flood
11. Backstreets
12. From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)
13. I'm Going Down
14. Talk to Me
15. Hungry Heart
16. Cadillac Ranch
17. Drive All Night
18. Long Walk Home
19. Born in the U.S.A
20. Badlands
21. Born to Run
22. Light of Day

Encore:

23. Meeting Across the River
24. Jungleland
25. Thunder Road
26. Tenth Avenue Freeze-out
27. Detroit Medley
28. Rosalita
29. I'm a Rocker
30. Glory Days
31. Dancing in the Dark
32. Shout
33. Quarter to Three

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{Billy Joel c. 2006}1. Prelude / Angry Young Man
2. My Life
3. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
4. Vienna
5. Summer, Highland Falls
6. The Stranger
7. Stiletto
8. Honesty
9. New York State of Mind
10. Miami 2017 (I've Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
11. Allentown
12. All for Leyna
13. Pressure
14. The Longest Time
15. An Innocent Man
16. Leave a Tender Moment Alone
17. Say Goodbye to Hollywood
18. Captain Jack
19. And So it Goes
20. River of Dreams
21. A Matter of Trust
22. We Didn't Start the Fire
23. It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
24. Uptown Girl
25. You May Be Right

Encore:

26. Only the Good Die Young
27. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
28. Piano Man
29. Famous Last Words

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{David Bowie (c. 2013, hypothetical "The Next Day" tour)}1. The Next Day
2. Rebel Rebel
3. Diamond Dogs
3. The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
4. Love is Lost
5. Life on Mars
6. Valentine's Day
7. Ashes to Ashes
8. Fame
9. Fashion
10. China Girl
11. If You Can See Me
12. Quicksand
13. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
14. Queen Bitch
15. Changes
16. Moonage Daydream
17. Hang on to Yourself
18. You Feel So Lonely You Could Die
19. (You Will) Set the World on Fire
20. Heat
21. Heathen (The Rays)

Encore:

22. All the Young Dudes
23. The Jean Genie
24. I'm Afraid of Americans
25. Hallo Spaceboy
26. Let's Dance
27. Ziggy Stardust
28. "Heroes"

[halloweenjack95]

Oct 27, 2019 17:51:14 GMT Dark Star said:

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{Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band (current)}1. My Love Will Not Let You Down
2. I Wanna Be with You
3. Night
4. Jackson Cage
5. Prove It All Night (w / 1978 intro)
6. It's Hard to be a Saint in the City
7. Candy's Room
8. Roulette
9. Cover Me
10. Lost in the Flood
11. Backstreets
12. From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)
13. I'm Going Down
14. Talk to Me
15. Hungry Heart
16. Cadillac Ranch
17. Drive All Night
18. Long Walk Home
19. Born in the U.S.A
20. Badlands
21. Born to Run
22. Light of Day

Encore:

23. Meeting Across the River
24. Jungleland
25. Thunder Road
26. Tenth Avenue Freeze-out
27. Detroit Medley
28. Rosalita
29. I'm a Rocker
30. Glory Days
31. Dancing in the Dark
32. Shout
33. Quarter to Three

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{Billy Joel c. 2006}1. Prelude / Angry Young Man
2. My Life
3. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
4. Vienna
5. Summer, Highland Falls
6. The Stranger
7. Stiletto
8. Honesty
9. New York State of Mind
10. Miami 2017 (I've Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
11. Allentown
12. All for Leyna
13. Pressure
14. The Longest Time
15. An Innocent Man
16. Leave a Tender Moment Alone
17. Say Goodbye to Hollywood
18. Captain Jack
19. And So it Goes
20. River of Dreams
21. A Matter of Trust
22. We Didn't Start the Fire
23. It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
24. Uptown Girl
25. You May Be Right

Encore:

26. Only the Good Die Young
27. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
28. Piano Man
29. Famous Last Words

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{David Bowie (c. 2013, hypothetical "The Next Day" tour)}1. The Next Day
2. Rebel Rebel
3. Diamond Dogs
3. The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
4. Love is Lost
5. Life on Mars
6. Valentine's Day
7. Ashes to Ashes
8. Fame
9. Fashion
10. China Girl
11. If You Can See Me
12. Quicksand
13. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
14. Queen Bitch
15. Changes
16. Moonage Daydream
17. Hang on to Yourself
18. You Feel So Lonely You Could Die
19. (You Will) Set the World on Fire
20. Heat
21. Heathen (The Rays)

Encore:

22. All the Young Dudes
23. The Jean Genie
24. I'm Afraid of Americans
25. Hallo Spaceboy
26. Let's Dance
27. Ziggy Stardust
28. "Heroes"

Your Bowie Set List could be pretty accurate(I mean if he had done a Tour). Because he always played many new songs. Not only the "greatest hits".

[halloweenjack95]

My Dream set list if Harry Nilsson had done at least one tour.

1. 1941
2. Gotta get up
3. Coconut
4. Spaceman
5. Drive Along
6. Down
7. Everybody's Talkin
8. Together
9. Poli High
10. Lazy Moon
11. Early in the Morning
12. You made me love you
13. Without her
14.The Moonbeam Song
15. You're Breaking my Heart

ENCORE:

1. Without you
2. One
3. Jump into the Fire

[roo]

Hey! New user here. I’m trying to put together a setlist for Paul McCartney, like an ultimate one, but he has so much great material it’s hard. Anyone want to take a stab?

[Vels]

Ooh, John Leyton:

1. Lonely Johnny
2. Thunder & Lightnin'
3. There Must Be
4. Goodbye To Teenage Love
5. Keep On Loving You
6. Cupboard Love

Herman's Hermits:

1. Got A Feeling
2. If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin'
3. You Won't Be Leaving
4. The Man With The Cigar
5. Mrs. Brown
6. I Wonder

What a gift it would be...

[halloweenjack95]

Jan 22, 2020 22:19:53 GMT roo said:

Hey! New user here. I’m trying to put together a setlist for Paul McCartney, like an ultimate one, but he has so much great material it’s hard. Anyone want to take a stab?

McCartney is kinda difficult. But that goes actually to all the Beatles. Mine would look like this(for now)

1. Magical Mystery Tour 
2. Venus and Mars/Rock Show/Jet
3. Drive my car 
4. Lady Madonna 
5. Let em in 
6. Beware my Love
7. Too many people 
8. My Love 
9. Ram on
10. Junk
11. Blackbird 
12. Wild Life 
13. Single Pigeon
14. Here, there and everywhere 
15. All my Loving
16. Helter Skelter
17. I saw her standing there

Encore 1 :

1. Get Back
2. Maybe I'm Amazed
3. Live and let die

Encore 2:

1. Hey Jude
2. Oh!Darling 
3. Band on the Run 
4. Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
5. The Long and winding road

[Dark Star]

Rush

Set 1:

1. Spirit of Radio
2. Limelight
3. Freewill
4. Roll the Bones
5. Nobody's Hero
6. Time Stand Still
7. The Enemy Within
8. New World Man
9. Jacob's Ladder
10. The Big Money
11. Grand Designs
12. Distant Early Warning

Set 2:

1. Subdivisions
2. Tom Sawyer
3. The Trees
4. Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres Part I: Prelude
5. Cygnus X-1
6. Here Again
7. La Villa Strangiato
8. Bravado
9. Resist
10. Rivendell
11. The Pass
12. Fly By Night
13. Working Man
14. Bastille Day
15. YYZ

Encore:

Closer to the Heart
Red Barchetta
Xanadu
2112 (the whole damn thing)

[Dark Star]

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{Paul McCartney}
1. Venus & Mars / Rockshow
2. Jet
3. Junior's Farm
4. All My Loving
5. Listen to What the Man Said

-- Paul at the piano --

6. Wanderlust
7. Let 'Em In
8. The Long and Winding Road
9. Maybe I'm Amazed
10. Fool on the Hill

11. Take It Away
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / Sgt. Pepper's Reprise
13. A Day in the Life

-- acoustic set --

14. Blackbird
15. Words of Love
16. Jenny Wren
17. Yesterday
18. I've Just Seen a Face

19. Band on the Run
20. Back in the USSR
21. I Saw Her Standing There
22. Paperback Writer
23. Penny Lane
24. She Loves You
25. No More Lonely Nights
26. Goodnight Tonight

-- second piano set --

27. Silly Love Songs
28. Live and Let Die
29. Let It Be
30. Hey Jude
31. Lady Madonna

Encore 1:

32. Day Tripper
33. Get Back
34. Helter Skelter
35. I've Got a Feeling

Encore 2:

36. With a Little Luck
37. I Wanna Hold Your Hand
38. Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End

[Dark Star]

Redux of my ideal Rush set:


1. Dreamline
2. The Spirit of Radio
3. Limelight
4. The Analog Kid
5. The Big Money
6. Time Stand Still
7. Fly By Night
8. The Pass
9. Manhattan Project
10. Subdivisions

1. Distant Early Warning
2. A Passage to Bangkok
3. Something for Nothing
4. The Trees
5. Freewill
6. Vital Signs
7. Nobody's Hero
8. Closer to the Heart
9. Red Barchetta
10. Anthem
11. Headlong Flight
12. Working Man
13. 2112

Encore:

14. Force Ten
15. Tom Sawyer
16. YYZ
17. Cygnus X-1 - Book One: The Voyage
18. Cygnus X-2 - Book Two: Hemispheres

[Dark Star]

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
1. You Wreck Me
2. Listen to Her Heart
3. A Woman in Love (It's Not Me)
4. Straight into Darkness
5. Free Fallin'
6. I Won't Back Down
7. You Don't Know How It Feels
8. Honey Bee
9. Don't Do Me Like That
10. Shadow of a Doubt (Complex Kid)
11. Here Comes My Girl
12. The Waiting
13. Angel Dream
14. Wildflowers
15. Learning to Fly
16. Don't Come Around Here No More
17. Yer So Bad
18. Running Down a Dream
19. Refugee

Encore:

20. Mary Jane's Last Dance
21. American Girl

[halloweenjack95]

George Michael:

1. Faith
2. Praying for Time
3. Star People 
4. Roxanne
5. Hand to Mouth
6. Fastlove 
7. Heal the Pain
8. Cowboys and Angels
9. One more try
10. You have been loved 
11. Everything she wants
12. I can't make you love me
13. Father Figure
14. Soul Free
15. Kissing a Fool
16. I'm your Man

Encore:

1. Mothers Pride
2. Jesus to a Child
3. Waiting for the Day
4. You've changed
5. Freedom' 90

[Dark Star]

Genesis
1. Dance on a Volcano
2. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
3. Behind the Lines
4. Misunderstanding
5. That's All
6. Medley: In The Cage / Cinema Show / In That Quiet Earth / Slippermen / Afterglow
7. Follow You, Follow Me
8. Entangled
9. Squonk
10. Land of Confusion
11. Hold on My Heart
12. The Musical Box
13. Abacab
14. Home by the Sea / Second Home by the Sea
15. In Too Deep
16. Mama
17. Undertow
18. Throwing It All Away
19. No Reply At All
20. Ripples
21. Supper's Ready
22. Domino
23. Drum Duet
24. Los Endos
25. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
26. Invisible Touch

Encore 1:

27. I Can't Dance
28. Turn It On Again (with 1960s' medley)

Encore 2:

29. Carpet Crawlers *
30. Medley: Firth of Fifth / I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) *

* with Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett

Phil Collins
1. Something Happened on the Way to Heaven
2. Against All Odds
3. Don't Lose My Number
4. Strangers Like Me
5. One More Night
6. I Missed Again
7. This Must Be Love
8. Who Said I Would
9. I Don't Care Anymore
10. Another Day in Paradise
11. Both Sides of the Story
12. Separate Lives
13. I Don't Wanna Know
14. Groovy Kind of Love
15. In The Air Tonight
16. Two Hearts
17. You Can't Hurry Love
18. Do You Remember
19. Behind the Lines (Face Value version)
20. Hang In Long Enough
21. Dance Into the Light
22. Easy Lover
23. Sussudio

Encore:

24. You'll Be in My Heart
25. Take Me Home 

[clem]

Megadeth

1. Skin O' My Teeth
2. Rust in Peace... Polaris
3. In My Darkest Hour
4. Tornado of Souls
5. Trust
6. The Disintegrators
7. Peace Sells
8. Hangar 18
9. Sweating Bullets
10. Symphony of Destruction
11. Back in the Day
12. Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
13. A Tout Le Monde
14. Mechanix
15. Public Enemy No. 1
16. Devil's Island
17. Liar
18. My Last Words
-ENCORE-
19. I'll Be There
20. Rattlehead
21. Good Mourning / Black Friday